US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods of evaluating an exterior quality of a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,995, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods of evaluating an exterior quality of a vehicle" was invented by Krishna Bandi (Novi, Mich.), Meghna Menon (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Gregory P. Linkowski (Dearborn, Mich.) and Mario Anthony Santillo (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining a first set of images of an exterior of one or more vehicles, determining a condition of the exterior of the one or more vehicles by an automated vehicle marshaling algorithm of an infrastructure system, and causing the one or more vehicles to navigate toward a waypoint an...